And Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, You have troubled me, to make me stink among those living in the land, among the Canaanites, and among the Perizzites. And I being few in number, and they gathering against me, they will strike me, and I and my house shall be wasted.
And this also is an evil thing which makes one to be sick, that in all, as he came, so shall he go. And what profit is to him who has labored for the wind?
For they sow the wind, and they reap the storm wind. A stalk is not to him; the bud shall make no flour. If it does make it, strangers will swallow it up.
And now, know and consider what you should do; for evil has been determined against our lord, and on all his house. And he is a son of worthlessness, no one can speak to him.
And the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name, Abigail. And the woman was of good understanding, and beautiful of form. And the man was hard and evil in his dealings. And he was of Caleb.